My Favorite Francis Ford Coppola Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Apocalypse Now (1979)

2.   The Conversation (1974)

3a. The Godfather (1972)
3b. The Godfather Part II (1974)
3c. The Godfather Part III (1990)

4.   Rumble Fish (1983)

5.   The Cotton Club (1984)

6.   One from the Heart (1981)

My Favorite Larry Cohen Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   God Told Me To (1976)

2.   Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

3.   It’s Alive (1974)

4.   The Stuff (1985)

5.   The Ambulance (1990)

6.   Masters of Horror (2006)
6a. Episode: “Pick Me Up”
(Cable/Television)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Bone (1972)

2.   Black Caesar (1973)

3.   The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

4.   It Lives Again (1978)

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Miller’s Crossing (1990)

2.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

3.   Raising Arizona (1987)

4.   Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

5.   Fargo (1996)

6.   Barton Fink (1991)

7.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

8.   A Serious Man (2009)

9.   True Grit (2010)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)

11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

16. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Claude Chabrol Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Le Ceremonie (1995)

2.   Le Boucher (1970)

3.   The Bridesmaid (2004)

4.   The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

5.   This Man Must Die (1969)

6.   Just Before Nightfall (1971)

7.   The Breach (1970)

8.   Les Biches (1968)

9.   Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

10. Bellamy (2009)

11. L’Enfer (1994)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Story of Women (1988)

2.   Merci pour le Chocolat (2000)

3.   Comedy of Power (2006)

4.   The Color of Lies (1999)

5.   Madame Bovary (1991)

6.   Betty (1992)

7.   A Girl Cut in Two (2007)

8.   The Cry of the Owl (1987)

9.   Les Cousins (1959)

10. Le Beau Serge (1958)

My Favorite John Carpenter Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Thing (1982)

2.   Halloween (1978)

3.   They Live (1988)

4.   Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

5.   Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

6.   Escape from New York (1981)

7.   In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

8.   The Fog (1980)

9.   Prince of Darkness (1987)

10. Masters of Horror – Season 1 (2005)
10a. Episode 8: Cigarette Burns (2005)
(Cable/Television)

11. Starman (1984)

12. Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
(Television)

13. Vampires (1998)

14. Body Bags (1993)
14a. Segment: The Gas Station (1993)
14b. Segment: Hair (1993)
(Anthology)
(Cable/Television)

15. Dark Star (1974)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Escape from L.A. (1996)

My Favorite Jane Campion Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Top of the Lake (2013)
1a. Episode 1: Paradise Sold
1b. Episode 2 : Searchers Search
(co-directed with Garth Davis)
1c. Episode 3: The Edge of the Universe
(Garth Davis directed only)
1d. Episode 4: A Rainbow Above Us
(co-directed with Garth Davis)
1e. Episode 5: The Dark Creator
(co-directed with Garth Davis)
1f. Episode 6: No Goodbyes Thanks
(co-directed with Garth Davis)

(Television)

2.   The Piano (1993)

3.   The Power of the Dog (2021)

4.   Sweetie (1989)

5.   In the Cut (2003)

6.   An Angel at My Table (1990)

7.   Two Friends (1986)
(Television)

8.   Bright Star (2009)

9.   Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017)
9a. Episode 1: China Girl
9b. Episode 2: The Loved One
(Ariel Kleiman directed only)
9c. Episode 3: Surrogate
(Ariel Kleiman directed only)
9d. Episode 4: Birthday
(Ariel Kleiman directed only)
9e. Episode 5: Who’s Your Daddy?
9f. Episode 6: The Battle of the Mothers
(Ariel Kleiman directed only)
(Television)

10. Holy Smoke! (1999)

11. The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Passionless Moments (1983)

2.   Peel: An Exercise in Discipline (1982)

3.   A Girl’s Own Story (1984)

My Favorite Charles Burnett Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Killer of Sheep (1978)

2.   My Brother’s Wedding (1983)

3.   To Sleep with Anger (1990)

4.   Nightjohn (1996)
(TV Film)

5.   The Blues: Warming by the Devil’s Fire (2003)
(TV Documentary)

6.   Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
(TV Film)

7.   The Glass Shield (1994)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   When It Rains (1995)

2.   Quiet As Kept (2007)

3.   Several Friends (1969)

4.   The Horse (1973)

My Favorite Albert Brooks Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *) 

1.   Real Life (1979)

2.   Modern Romance (1981)

3.   Lost in America (1985)

4.   Defending Your Life (1991)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Mother (1996)
(No relation to the 2009 and 2017 films)